I'm a CPA and not highly skilled in computer stuff. The fact that I managed to join Lemmy, set up Jerboa and actually participate means that almost anyone can do it
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I'm a student, gonna start (undergrad) medical school this summer.
I'm currently an attorney but in another life I worked help desk in the military.
Non-tech! I'm a buyer for a large wholesaler and distributor.
social sciences (anthro) background but have always been a bit on the tech savvy side and had tech support jobs
I'm a programmer but I don't think there is a high bar of entry here, maybe with so many options to choose from maybe
Iβm kinda like a handyman for a medical laboratory. Actually hard to defineβ¦from fixing doors to fixing medical equipment
Interesting question. I'm a software developer, but I just wanted to point out that reddit also started out very heavily skewed toward tech workers. The non tech people came quite a bit later for the most part. Even today from what I can tell, software developers are overrepresented on Reddit.
Most of the early discussion I recall on Reddit was around programming languages. Some startup stuff. Was probably partly the Reddit team themselves posting stuff they were interested in, and partly intake from Slashdot -- I found Reddit from Slashdot -- and Slashdot had a tech bent.
Here's an early snapshot of Reddit:
https://web.archive.org/web/20051202065421/http://reddit.com/
I also think that a factor is that people who can host their own instance are particularly interested, because you can't do that at all on Reddit and the Threadiverse suddenly lets you do that. For them, it's not just "Reddit is doing something that I don't like", but "the Threadiverse has the network structure that I wish Reddit did". That'll slew towards techies. Like, is pretty active, even on non-lemmy/kbin stuff.
Yeah, I agree. I'm a programmer, and I too would also expect the majority of people using decentralized platforms have a technical background.
University student. Doing business. Not that tech savvy. I will learn some programing languages because finding a job(a good one) gets harder and harder every year.